Chapter 19
Jules’ one-bedroom apartment was small even by one-bedroom apartment standards. Brock and Gia’s house was an old-world mansion built by someone in Brock’s family generations before and carefully maintained. The Tandell family was old money, and now they had a mega-million-dollar corporation that had multiple branches and investments, keeping their bank accounts full. Jules had been over a few times when he was younger, but the house had always intimidated him. He preferred hanging out at Remy’s, a modest two-bedroom bungalow in the gray zone between the inner city where Jules grew up and the pretty suburbs where muggings and such were just a myth.
They ate in the kitchen, all of them up on the bar stools around the kitchen island. Gia and Connie, the Tandell’s housekeeper, had
